News channels are off-air, and Airlines’ ground flights and trains are delayed. Doesn’t it all sound like a horrific apocalypse of any Hollywood movie? This all has been happening because of the Microsoft outage that has left Windows users with a blue screen. As per the reports airlines, railways, stock exchange, news channels and more have been affected because of it.
This issue has mainly affected countries such as the UK, the US, Australia, several European countries, and India. Many airlines have taken the X to post about this issue.
#TravelUpdate: Due to infrastructure issues with our service provider, some of our online services, including booking, check-in and manage booking services will be temporarily unavailable. Currently we are following manual check-in and boarding processes at the airports and hence…
— Akasa Air (@AkasaAir) July 19, 2024
Our systems are currently impacted by a Microsoft outage, which is also affecting other companies. During this time booking, check-in, access to your boarding pass, and some flights may be impacted. We appreciate your patience.
— IndiGo (@IndiGo6E) July 19, 2024
Windows users all across the world are sharing the image of their screen that shows the recovery page displaying the message “It looks like Windows didn’t load correctly. If you’d like to restart and try again, choose Restart my PC below.”
This issue is said to be caused by the CrowdStrike security update. The company has acknowledged the issue and has said “We are aware of the widespread issue causing BSOD errors on Windows machines across various sensor versions”. One side where people are frustrated by this issue some employees are celebrating this as the early weekend when they will not have to work as it’s not them who don’t want to work this time. Several experts and firms are coming forth to suggest a solution for this major issue Kaspersky wrote in an X post ” To resolve the issue, it is necessary to delete the affected driver (csagent.sys or C-00000291*.sys) using Safe Mode. However, many corporate users lack the required access rights to perform this action, meaning that corporate administrators may need to intervene manually at a company-wide level”.
CrowdStrike Update Crashes Windows Systems
A widespread outage affecting numerous Windows systems worldwide, both servers and workstations, is attributed to a flawed update of drivers associated with CrowdStrike EDR solutions. The affected systems display the 'blue screen of… pic.twitter.com/4g5ApEeZqK
— Kaspersky (@kaspersky) July 19, 2024
